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...tention, or refractory edema, including congestive heart failure and cirrhosis, said the researchers. "If we could inhibit the water channel with drugs," says A.S. Verkman, MD, PhD, UCSF professor of medicine and physiology, "then problems of fluid retention could be effectively treated where conventional...

...turated fat and yet the French have fewer cases of heart disease and are less obese than Americans. The consumption of fat in the French diet was balanced by greater dietary diversity and variety. "The low-fat approach is very good, but not if it comes at the expense of dietary variety," Drewnowski said. ...

...ossible, Raines said. Collagen breakdown is at the heart of many serious diseases, such as arthritis, rheum...are also looking at collagen as a raw material for heart valve or vessel repair, in reconstructing damaged cartilage or ligaments, and for corneal grafts. I...

...ination, part of the cell-development cycle at the heart of heredity during which a chromosome that has split is rejoined to itself or another chromosome. The UW researchers have been motivated by an intrinsic interest in this powerful, fundamental complex, which may also be essential to the development of...

...brain concentrates on the answers of tomorrow, his heart cannot forget what he sees today. "The family that sticks out most strongly in my mind is the family of seven people who lost all 34 of their yak and decided to sell their tent in order to buy five yak from their neighbors," Foggin says through E-ma...

...rnal pH. Similar proteins control the heart rhythm, the action potential of nerve cells, and muscle contraction. All these ion pumps work in the same way as the proton ATPase and are likely to have similar structures. Manfred Auer and Werner Khlbrandt of the Depart...

...le aspirinuse protects some people from developing heart attackshave traced the mechanism back to a specifi...ould be used to determine which people at risk for heart attacksand heart disease might benefit mostly from daily doses ofaspirin and which people might need...

...ately restoring blood flow to the heartfollowing a heart attack provides a short-term benefit, this study i...ntage," theauthors write. Most people who die of a heart attack do so in the first 24 hours. Immediaterestoration of blood flow to the heart after a heart a...

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... cardiovascular disease than whites. Malesdie from heart attacks far more often than females. Women suffer ...mall pieces of left-oversaphenous vein tissue from heart bypass surgeries, they compared the veins ofwhite men and women and discovered a startling differenc...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In humans, the heart is the mechanical pump that circulatesthe blood of...and directs wherelife-giving resources go. At the heart of the findings, published in the April 14 issue of theProceedings of the National Academy of Scienc...

...h stomach ulcers could be a contributing factor to heart disease,according to a report in today's Circulati...-- known as Helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) -- and heart diseaseappeared to depend on the strength, or virulent nature, of the bacteria strain.In their study...

... of membraneproteins that regulate blood pressure, heart function, nerve conduction and acidsecretion." A report on the findings just appeared in Nature, the top Britishbiological journal. Besides Scarborough, authors are Dr. Manfred Auer and WernerKuhlbrandt of the Max Planck Institute for Biophys...

...inedalong with risk of obesity, breast cancer, and heart disease, areas of greatestresearch. National health recommendations will be debated, weighing thepossible benefits of alcohol consumption against its potential for abuse. "The Role of Dairy Foods in Reducing the Risk of Colon Cancer" (Sessi...

...rupture, airway trauma, irreversible damage to the heart orbrain, or even death. The new endotracheal tube sidesteps these perils with"smarts" derived from ultrasound transducers smaller than apencil's eraser -- miniature versions of the transducers inultrasound scanners currently used by doctors to m...

...stening to the sounds made by the blood. When the heart pumps blood, velocity is high (systolic cycle) and...e artery is clean, there is no turbulence when the heart does not pump (diastolic cycle), and when the velocity of blood is low. But when cholesterol deposit...

... inmen. Untreated high blood pressure can lead to heart disease, stroke and kidneyfailure. The cause of t...keep blood pressure normal and is also involved in heart muscle and blood vesselgrowth. While previous research has found that people who carry a certain gen...

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